From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> VERMAGIC* definitions are not supposed to be used by the drivers, see this [1] bug report, so introduce special define to guard inclusion of this header file and define it in kernel/modules.h and in internal script that generates *.mod.c files. In-tree module build: ➜ kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ make clean ➜ kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ make M=drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5 ➜ kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ modinfo drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko filename: /images/leonro/src/kernel/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko <...> vermagic: 5.6.0+ SMP mod_unload modversions Out-of-tree module build: ➜ mlx5 make -C /images/leonro/src/kernel clean M=/tmp/mlx5 ➜ mlx5 make -C /images/leonro/src/kernel M=/tmp/mlx5 ➜ mlx5 modinfo /tmp/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko filename: /tmp/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko <...> vermagic: 5.6.0+ SMP mod_unload modversions [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200411155623.GA22175@xxxxxxx Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/vermagic.h | 5 +++++ kernel/module.c | 3 +++ scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h index 9aced11e9000..7768d20ada39 100644 --- a/include/linux/vermagic.h +++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ + +#ifndef INCLUDE_VERMAGIC +#error "This header can be included from kernel/module.c or *.mod.c only" +#endif + #include <generated/utsrelease.h> /* Simply sanity version stamp for modules. */ diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 646f1e2330d2..8833e848b73c 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002, 2010 Rusty Russell IBM. */ + +#define INCLUDE_VERMAGIC + #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/extable.h> #include <linux/moduleloader.h> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 5c3c50c5ec52..7f7d4ee7b652 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -2251,6 +2251,7 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod) * Include build-salt.h after module.h in order to * inherit the definitions. */ + buf_printf(b, "#define INCLUDE_VERMAGIC\n"); buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/build-salt.h>\n"); buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/vermagic.h>\n"); buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/compiler.h>\n"); -- 2.25.2
